The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-09-24
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FIrrgEx years ago there wero no native
oysters in France. At the present time
.he yield amounts to i've hundred thou-
,and.
THs Norwegian wood pulp industry IL
argely on the increase. The product OF
he last year is nearly ninety-tive tons In
xcess of that OF SIX years ago.
The ancestral home OF the family of Con-
tucius, in China, was recently destroyed by
fire 1t is said to have been occupied by
generation after generation for twenty-five
hundred years.
ALL military centers in both France and
uermany ara being connected by an under
ground telegraph cable system. Tho ca
bles are four feet below the surface and
are safe from injury by storms.
WHEN the Car of Russia prepares for
drive the police are notified all along the
line to be travelled. Hundreds Of men en-.
ployed at good pay attend him with vigi.
leucc. II is said the police insist on these
precautions rather against the wishes OF
the Car
THERE are three thousand ave hundred
police in Berlin. These do not perform
service at night so there are five hundred
night watchmen especially employed. All
the policemen are those who have served
in the army aud have conducted Themselves
sealously aud faithfully.
THERE Ia a perfect labrynth OF under.
ground streets in Eperany, France, In
which are stored millions OF bottles OF
champagne. In fact this Is I city OF cham
pagne The largest manufacturers have
whole streets of chateaux and cellars
forty-fve acres in extent
THE Berlin Royal Library, through the
representations OF the German Crown
Prince, purchased the library of the re.
Gently deceased historian, Leopold Won
Kan9e lhe collection contained upward
of twenty thousand volumes valued at
lwenu thousand pounds
"A Mount GARNER correspondence OF the
Reading tPal Edg'e sends the following
"In cottage on the outskirts OF this town
an old man named Jones, who has lived for
many years in misery way, though he
was rcputod TO be wealthy, has just diei
under strange circumstances. He was
widowcr, and his only child, young girl,
was driven from home by his treatment.
She was afterward marriel TO Young
minor living here. Before TIA old man
died his daugAter had peculiar dream.
She imagined she saw her fathers head
resting on q pillow, slightly notding.
Next day she went 10 her IA hers hCme.
On entering she saw her father lying on a
bti He callel TO her, family: i am dy.
ing; won't you forgive met As sho came
- his side be handel her bank book and
papers roprcseE tang total value estimated
a. slsoWO"
-'John," saidN wife in the middle
ofthc night, rousing her husband. "I de-
clare, l forgot to put the mackerel
to soak" 'Um-Yum-Ah-I don
b'lieve you'd-Um-Yum-got much
on it IL you had. said sleepy john
Lye.
We'll. that's just like the cheek OF
these foreign artists" observed Mrs
Snaggs. What isa" asked her huS
band. "why. that man Munkacsy 10
coming back here next summer 70
paint Nisgara Falls and believe he'll
Just spoil them. so l do. "-Pittsbvrsh
Cbronic!e.
"A singular freak Of the wind II
visible in Desdwood. ID. T.. building.
A piece of the roof of store. about
seven fee; wide and twelve feet long.
was lifted up, carried across the build
Ing and deposited scme distance of
The hole has every appearance OF hav-
ing been made with a saw and hatchst
and 90 artistically and clean cut as 10
give the appearance OF having been
done by an expert carpenter.